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Why is looking glass a bigot? Or, is that really the only argument you have to defend Islamofacists with?

Let's start with the fact that even Looking Glass admits he is a bigot, which you may or may not know is someone that applies the attributes of a small subset of a group to the entire group. Suggesting that all Muslims are anything but Muslims is quintessential bigotry.

BTW, Islamofacists is a vague term invented by our friends a Fox. Thanks for displaying your gullibility.

It was a joke -- political grandstanding. -- It achieves the opposite what it desires.

That’s based on the assumption that these politicians are being forthright with their desires. If they were merely looking to tap into the wellspring of fear and hatred of Muslims and turn it into political capital, they could have done a much worse job.

Let's start with the fact that even Looking Glass admits he is a bigot, which you may or may not know is someone that applies the attributes of a small subset of a group to the entire group. Suggesting that all Muslims are anything but Muslims is quintessential bigotry.

BTW, Islamofacists is a vague term invented by our friends a Fox. Thanks for displaying your gullibility.

It was a joke -- political grandstanding. -- It achieves the opposite what it desires.

It seemed to me, these hearings weren't really about homeland security or the FBI. It was about learning about the hows and whys of the radicalization of our American youth. It was about prevention. It wasn't about catching and arresting radicals.
As I said earlier I came away with a different view of moderate American Muslims. They are as much victims of the radicals, if not more than other Americans. They need our support to stop it.
I don't know what Homeland Security or the FBI could have had to offer to these hearings. Also, that seems to me it would have just been more ammo for the media to attack King.

Well I hope this article meets the guidelines. I'm not sure why a bonafide newspaper feels the need to wrap the word radicalization in quotation marks.

I watched the whole hearing and found it very enlightening. The Democrats to a man made fools of themselves as far as I'm concerned. They are complete slaves to the idiocy of political correctness. I am convinced that if they were captured and tortured by an "Islamist" as they are now calling Islamofascist jihadis they would apologize for not holding still.

NOTE: Moderator edit to reduce quoted text to what is permissible under Breaking News/Fair Use guidelines.

So what's really the problem? Everybody agrees radicalism in the name of Islam is bad. The fight is between people who believe Muslims and Islam in general are comparable to the KKK or Nazis on one side, and those who believe such a kind of broad-brushing is as much a problem as radical islam, if not more, on the other.

My two cents: The people who do it may have honorable intentions (rejection of radicalism), but broad-brush condemnation of Islam as radical in general smells like outgroup homogeneity bias. Out-group homogeneity bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Personally, I know quite a few Muslims, and none of them is radical.

Justabubba exemplified that by pointing to a hypothetical situation when Christians in general are blamed for terrorist acts committed in the name of their religion. When a Christian becomes radical, people would hardly condemn Christianity in a broad-brush manner for these deeds. That's because Christianity is the dominant religion in our societies and everybody immediately understands how absurd such broad-brushing is. Islam is alien enough for many not to enjoy this benefit.

But then, there is much evidence suggesting radical attitudes are indeed more common among Muslims, than they are among Christians. Still I don't believe discriminating Muslims in general is helpful when it comes to addressing and solving the problems with radicals that actually exist. Also, radicals among Muslims are bad enough, and indiscriminate condemnation of Muslims is another, similar type of radicalism that's just as bad. It's bad enough when there are radical Muslim suicide bombers, we don't need to add radical islamophobes setting mosques on fire.

"Not learning from mistakes is worse than committing mistakes. When you don't allow yourself to make mistakes, it is hard to be tolerant of others and it does not allow even God to be merciful."